Scott Brown's comeback tour

11/13/12 7:10 PM EST

He might have lost his Senate seat last week, but Scott Brown is still very much in the game.

Between the 2014 Massachusetts governor’s race and the swirling rumors regarding a possible Cabinet position for Sen. John Kerry, several promising opportunities might soon present themselves to Brown.

In a media availability Tuesday in Washington, the senator dodged questions about his future.

“I have a job to do right now and there is not an opening right now for governor, nor is there an opening for senator,” Brown said. “But there is an opening for a dad and a husband and that’s the role that I want to play.”

Given his track record — a giant special election upset and a respectable loss in his bid to win a full term — and the Massachusetts GOP’s thin bench, Brown has far more leverage than the typical election loser in choosing an avenue of return.

If he’s interested in returning to the Senate, however, Brown is looking at a daunting scenario. If Kerry steps down, Brown would have to run next year in a 2013 Senate special election, followed by the regularly scheduled 2014 election for the full six-year term. That would make four grueling statewide campaigns in five years in a heavily Democratic state — the 2010 special, the 2012 general election against Elizabeth Warren, a 2013 special and a 2014 general.